Pro-Darwinists Destroy Scientist’s Career After He Turns to God-Based Evolution Theory

“Thus said Hashem, your Redeemer, Who formed you in the womb: It is I, Hashem, who made everything, Who alone stretched out the heavens And unaided spread out the earth.” Isaiah 44:24 (The Israel Bible™)

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Over the last year, Dr. Günter Bechly went from being a respected member of the scientific community to a pariah, losing his position as a museum curator and having his Wikipedia page removed, for the crime of combining faith and science. The battle against the Bible is being played out in the media and many scientists complain that in the end, the search for truth is the ultimate victim.

Dr. Bechly is a paleo-entomologist, a scientist who specializes in the fossil history and systematics of insects. A senior scientist at the Biologic Institute based in Redmond, Washington, Dr. Bechly is also a devout Catholic for whom science and belief go hand-in-hand.

Dr. Günter Bechly (Screenshot)

“I have not become a Christian in spite of being a scientist but because of it,” Dr. Bechly wrote on his website. “My conversion was based on a critical evaluation of empirical data and philosophical arguments, following the evidence wherever it leads.”

Ironically, Dr. Bechly’s transition away from Darwinian evolution began in 2009 when he created a presentation for the 100th anniversary of Darwin’s publication of “The Origin of Species”. Part of the display was a scale with Darwin’s one book outweighing all the books on intelligent design questioning Darwin’s theory.

The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. Intelligent design contradicts specific aspects of evolutionary theory which claim genetic mutation is random, a slow process leading to mutations best suited to the environment.

This initiated a process in which Dr. Bechly realized that random mutation and evolutionary theory could not explain many of his own findings in paleontology. As a true scientist, his theories changed to conform to his observations. In a blog post in 2015, Dr. Bechly rejected Darwinian evolution.

Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution. (Wikimedia Commons)

“I am skeptical of the Neodarwinian theory of macroevolution and support Intelligent Design theory for purely scientific reasons,” Bechly stated on his site.

Dr. Bechly’s developing position as an advocate for intelligent design led to his being pushed out from his post as curator Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany. His Wikipedia site was removed in October, with the moderators questioning his “notability”. When Wikipedia’s decision was questioned in the public forum, it responded, “Accusations of anti-creationism bias are not germane”, without offering a defense or proof that there were other more significant considerations for Dr. Bechly’s removal.

Dr. Nathan Aviezer, a physics professor at Bar Ilan University, was not surprised at how harshly Bechly was treated.

“Darwin has become God,” Dr. Aviezer told Breaking Israel News. “The sad fact is that there is an absolutely fanatical support for Darwin’s theory of evolution in the scientific community. They don’t want to hear anything else and this is not a scientific approach. There are even totally contradictory views about evolution by evolutionary biologists.”

Dr. Aviezer insisted that this bias was larger than the religious-secular divide, citing several scientists who suggested non-faith based alternative theories for evolution. These non-Darwinian theories were universally rejected.

Dr. Gerald Schroeder, a Torah scholar with a PHD in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), agreed that there is a bias against the Bible in the scientific community.

“There are many people who are disturbed at the suggestion there may be some metaphysical tinkering going on in the universe,” Dr. Schroeder told Breaking Israel News, relating an email exchange he had with the renowned scientist Dr. Stephen Hawking. After a few emails, Dr. Hawking ended the dialogue, abruptly discounting Dr. Schroeder’s ideas.

“He accused me of trying to use science to make the Bible true,” Dr. Schroeder said. “He signed off by saying that he doesn’t think the Bible has anything to do with the reality of science, which is something I strongly believe in.”

“There is clearly an agenda in the media to present a random world resulting from random mutation in evolution, even though there is no evidence that the observable changes are a result of a random process,” Dr. Schroeder said.

Noah’s Ark replica built by Ken Ham. (Twitter @ArkEcounter)

Another example of this agenda is how creationists, such as Ken Ham, founder of Ark Encounters, are frequently singled out by the press for ridicule. Ham became the target for criticism when he faced off against Bill Nye in a debate about creationism. Much to chagrin of the geek community, Ham won the debate.

The Ark Encounters theme park, a showcase for young earth creationism, opened up shortly after under a storm of controversy and has been criticized for being financially unsound, though Ham opened his books to prove the park is profitable.

A recent Washington Post article ridiculed Ham for proposing that dinosaurs were saved from the Biblical flood by Noah. Ham responded that he never never made such a claim and the Washington Post published a redaction.

Dr. Schroeder suggested a different strategy for both sides of the debate.

“I try to find confluence between science and the Bible, rather than create conflict,” Dr Schroeder said. “Science and belief were compatible for most of human history. God could have created the world in an instant, but he chose to do so in a process. Evolution is the flow of life from the simple to the complex, which is precisely the process we see in the six days of creation.”

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About the Author

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz is a features writer for Breaking Israel News. He made Aliyah to Israel in 1991 and served in the IDF as a combat medic. Berkowitz studied Jewish law and received rabbinical ordination in Israel. He has worked as a freelance writer and two works of fiction, The Hope Merchant and Dolphins on the Moon, are available on Amazon. He lives in the Golan Heights with his wife and their four children.